Extend the life of SSD and USB flash drives
A tip on extending the life of SSD and USB flash drives, plus an update to a previous tip published a few weeks ago.
Challenges mount for ultra-wideband wireless
Ultra-wideband wireless, which underlies wireless USB products, suffered another jolt recently when one UWB pioneer shut down operations.
Danger: 8GB USB Drive for $10
Don't you love the way technology prices drop and drop? Think about an 8GB storage device attached to your keyring. The cost of solid state memory keeps plummeting at an amazing rate, and I applaud the chip makers and manufacturers integrating such memory into their products.
Ought Thumb Drives Be Given the Thumbs Down?
Today’s small, portable USB thumb drives can store significant amounts of data and be easily slipped into a pocket without anyone noticing. This makes it possible for someone to copy data from a network, walk out the company door, and transfer the same data onto another PC.
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Windows PowerShell 2.0 Unleashed
By Tyson Kopczynski, Pete Handley, Marco Shaw; Published by Sams
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Ubuntu Server Administration
By Michael Jang; Published by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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